my dvd player plays sound but no picture??

I had to change my video card, an NVIDIA GEFORCE 256 as the fan packed in, I tried my dvd player before replacing card and it plays sound but no picture. I then put in new video card, GEFORCE2 MX 400, 64MB/64BIT, this fixed the problems with my display, all ok again, but still will not play DVD. I noticed when I took out old card it had a ribbon cable connected, I think it was to the sound card, but new card has no slot for ribbon cable!! Dont even know what this ribbon cable was for! It is a DELL PC 700 PENTIUM 11, WIN98SE, bought NOV 1999 and apart from the video card going it has been great. I dont play dvds that often but would like to have it working, just in case. The disc for DVD says HARDWARE CINEMASTER DELL HW DVD 3.00. I re-installed drivers etc but still no joy.

thanks for reply, i believe i got the answer, it is 5 years since i bought this thing so i am giving myself an excuse!! I got a dvd hardware accelerator card with the video card and this was joined with the ribbon cable!! Stupidly I thought replace the card with a geforce agp etc and it will be a match but after scouting around this morning boy was I wrong!!

This is what I should have ordered but it is on an Amercican site, I got my card from dabs and no doubt they wont exchange it now!!

If u know where in UK I can get this card let me know. Of course if there is a work round let me know that too. I am gpoing to check that new card one more time but I am positice there is no ribbon connector.

You originally needed the hardware accelerator card because your processor was not up to DVD's; I had a Pentium 2 500 at that time with one. I have since updated that machine with a newer motherboard and faster processor and it plays DVD's ok with a Geforce 64 Mb card without an accelerator. All of this is not much use to you but I doubt whether any new graphics cards will have the connector you need.

fruit bat, it is all coming back to me now!! When I got PC the gospel then was get a hardware dvd accelerator card as othrwise u would lose quality, it takes away a lot of the processing power from the cpu. Anyway the dvd card sits in a pci slot next to the AGP graphics card and the ribbon cable connects the 2. If I had realised these cards with the dvd input were no longer available I would have looked on ebay for a 2nd 256. I did just now and they are there, starting at 99p!! I may get one but I like my new display!!

fruit bat, it is all coming back to me now!! When I got PC the gospel then was get a hardware dvd accelerator card as othrwise u would lose quality, it takes away a lot of the processing power from the cpu. Anyway the dvd card sits in a pci slot next to the AGP graphics card and the ribbon cable connects the 2. If I had realised these cards with the dvd input were no longer available I would have looked on ebay for a 2nd 256. I did just now and they are there, starting at 99p!! I may get one but I like my new display!!